Storey

Pittrice
Torino, Italy
Biografia

Born in the United Kingdom to an English father and an Italian mother, she developed an early sensitivity to the contrasts between industrial life and the natural world. Raised between cultures, her upbringing shaped a visual language deeply rooted in observation, displacement, and social consciousness. She later moved to Turin, where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Painting at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, specializing in oil painting.

Working primarily with oil on canvas, her practice explores the fragile and often violent relationship between humans and nature. Through layered compositions and expressive textures, she investigates systems of domination, exploitation, and survival, drawing parallels between the treatment of the environment and the dynamics between the powerful and the marginalized. Her paintings frequently depict animals, industrial landscapes, and human figures suspended in ambiguous spaces, confronting viewers with questions of responsibility, consumption, and empathy.

Influenced by both classical painting traditions and contemporary social critique, her work balances realism with symbolic imagery. She uses oil painting not only as a technical discipline but as a medium capable of conveying tension, vulnerability, and resistance. Across her practice, recurring themes include ecological collapse, labor, animal exploitation, and the psychological distance between privilege and suffering.

Her work has been recognized for its emotional intensity and its commitment to addressing urgent social and environmental issues through painting. She has also participated in numerous art exhibitions throughout Italy.

Artworks